Valley of death : the tragedy at Dien Bien Phu that led America into the Vietnam War, Ted Morgan

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Valley of death : the tragedy at Dien Bien Phu that led America into the Vietnam War, Ted Morgan

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"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ted Morgan has now written a definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina - and led inexorably to America's Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial colony

"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ted Morgan has now written a definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina - and led inexorably to America's Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial colony

Summary

Presents a history of the onset of the Vietnam War that documents the contributions of Senior General General Vo Nguyen Giap and the pivotal 1954 defeat of French forces that ended colonial rule in Indochina